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Students have some experience with solar system basics. This organizer is a place for them to record their understanding. Texts or other materials can be supplied to help them complete the work.

Focus on Earth and Mars to organize their skills. Lead discussions about the other planets - compare them to Earth - how are they similar or different? Then let students complete use this information to compare Earth and Mars.

Canadian contributions to space industry are often unknown to many students. This is a fairly simple assignment that is best done in a computer lab, but can be done with paper copies of the different missions. Here is a fairly long list of mission choices.

Missions have official patches that use images to describe the mission. This may appeal to some students. This is a sampling of mission patches. There are many more.

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